One more election post-mortem

I have been meaning to post this succinct bit of insight from Richard Rorty for a while now. It is from the Dec 20th Nation.

"Most Americans find it intolerable to think that our soldiers were sent abroad to die for no sufficient reason. They are still unwilling to admit that those who fell in Vietnam lost their lives in vain. So half the electorate managed to keep on believing both that Saddam Hussein was preparing to use weapons of mass destruction and that he was somehow linked to 9/11. They did so because, in their minds, to abandon those beliefs would be to withdraw support from our troops."